Anniesland railway station
General information | |||||
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Location | Anniesland, Glasgow Scotland | ||||
Coordinates | 55°53′23″N 4°19′18″W / 55.8898°N 4.3217°W | ||||
Grid reference | NS548687 | ||||
Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
Transit authority | SPT | ||||
Platforms | 3 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | ANL | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | Stobcross Railway | ||||
Pre-grouping | North British Railway | ||||
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
Key dates | |||||
20 October 1874 | Station opened as Great Western Road | ||||
9 January 1931 | Station renamed Anniesland | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 1.136 million | ||||
2019/20 | 1.145 million | ||||
2020/21 | 0.173 million | ||||
2021/22 | 0.565 million | ||||
2022/23 | 0.735 million | ||||
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Anniesland railway station is a
.The station is served by ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network.
It is located on the Argyle Line, 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on the North Clyde Line 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line 6+1⁄4 miles (10.1 km) away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).
A plan has been approved to upgrade the station to include a new lift and over pass to provide more disabled access.
History
Opened by the
When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.
The line towards Westerton (which was opened some years after the Maryhill line in 1886 as part of the Glasgow City and District Railway) was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to Jordanhill & Hyndland as part of the North Clyde Line modernisation scheme. The chord from Maryhill (which was part of the original Stobcross Railway route) remains diesel worked. This chord was closed completely in 1985 and lifted three years later (after being disused since 1980), but relaid and reopened in 2005 when the Maryhill Line was extended as part of the project to re-open the railway to Larkhall on the Argyle Line.
After the 2005 re-opening, there had been no physical link between the two routes here – the single line from Maryhill Park Junction terminated in its own separate bay platform (number 3) on the eastern side of the station and the two routes were under the control of different signalling centres. However, in late 2015,
Services
There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) on the North Clyde Line and to Glasgow Central (Low Level) on the Argyle Line.[4]
Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are
There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) via Maryhill Monday to Saturdays.[5]
Since a timetable revision on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service operates on the route via Maryhill.[6]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Terminus | ScotRail Maryhill Line |
Kelvindale | ||
Hyndland | ScotRail Argyle Line |
Westerton | ||
Hyndland | ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Westerton | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Partickhill | North British Railway Stobcross Railway |
Maryhill | ||
connection to Stobcross railway |
North British Railway Glasgow City and District Railway |
Westerton | ||
Whiteinch Victoria Park | North British Railway Whiteinch Railway |
connection to Stobcross railway | ||
Scotstounhill | North British Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway |
connection to Stobcross railway |
References
- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ Service Alterations - Anniesland Station
- ^ Edinburgh to Glasgow works Rail Engineer (retrieved 29-01-2016)
- ^ Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- ^ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 232
- ^ GB WTT 13 December 2015 to 14 May 2016 Edition, Section GA12
Sources
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Station on navigable O.S. map